Band:	Trollfest
Album:	Brumlebassen
Style:	Folk metal
Release date:	August 2012

01. Brumlebassen
02. Böse Tivoli
03. Illsint
04. Hevlette
05. Finsken, Norsken And Presten
06. Mystisk Maskert
07. Apis Mellifera
08. TrinkenTroll
09. Verboten Kjærleik
10. Bråk
11. Sellout
12. Rundt Bålet
13. Konterbier [bonus]

I had a nightmare about a year ago that I'd gone home for a weekend, threw my shit into my family's living room, fixed myself a bourbon and water, grabbed a slice of pizza, and everything was good, I was happy. And so I practically skipped up to my old bedroom where my brother's currently squatting, knocked on the door for a moment, waited, got no reply, opened it a crack, then got a glimpse that's still scarring to this day of him?my brother and kin--engaging in the unspeakably gay acts that plagued my teen years.

Namely, listening to Eluveitie.

Turns out, that nightmare turned into a real?very real?reality. The guy's listening to Eluveitie now. A lot. And not just Eluveitie, but?gasp?Wintersun and Ensiferum, too.

Luckily for him, autumn's in the air, I'm not too pissed off, and I'm not gonna go headbutt those ghastly, really awfully jejune "tastes" out of him; in fact, I'm gonna recommend him and you all here a record. A record so fucking fun, and so fucking accessible that it makes me feel 18 again.

Now pass me a penis.

BRUMBLEBASSEN. A folk-based, Finntroll-vein, hard-hitting, FUN metal album. It's not dark, it's not dirty, it's not transcendent and metaphysical-like, it's not serious in any sense, it's just really catchy. That's about it. And frankly, about halfway through the first track, that's all I ended up wanting it to be.

It's not Korpiklaani-like. Stuff actually happens here. Songs go places--they build and explode and build and twist and stuff. They sound different, however slightly, from their counterpart tracks. Most of them even sound like they're from a place other than these guys' native country, Norway--which seems like a feat at this point. There's about a hundred shades?some of them Scandinavian, some of them some kind of Southern European--of straight, 100 proof merriment here.

It's basically a slightly less Northern-sounding Finntroll disc, but made by Norwegians, and instead of having lyrics in Swedish, some of them are in Trollsprak... a language these guys invented.

It's not to be missed stuff if you can stand approaching another stupid-looking folk metal album, and definitely not to be missed if you've got a solid supply of beer nearby. Or, you know, soda if you're a younger one and some kind of pussy.